The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and European Association of
Nuclear Medicine procedure guide on gastrointestinal transit currently indicates that the …

Evaluation of severe functional gastrointestinal motility disorders requires an investigation of
the entire gastrointestinal tract. This should be possible with a single radionuclide imaging …

A radionuclide methodology and reference values have been developed for a single
gastrointestinal transit study including esophageal transit, liquid and solid gastric emptying …

Intestinal chyme and indigestible solids move through the small and large bowels via
complex gastrointestinal contractions. Identifying the location of a motility disorder causing …

Materials and Methods: Twenty-nine healthy controls underwent routine GES, with
additional imaging at 24 h if feasible. Small-bowel transit was assessed using the index of …

Abstract Background and Purpose Currently, most studies combine the small bowel transit
examination with gastric emptying time examination. There are significant drawbacks to this …

In this issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Antoniou et al. describe a novel
scintigraphic procedure designed to evaluate in a physiologic manner the transit of both the …

649 Objectives Gastric emptying scintigraphy is a well-established technique for the
determination of gastroparesis or dumping syndrome. The technique however does not lend …

There is no standard method of analysis of scintigraphic colonic transit investigation. This
study was designed to compare 4 techniques. Methods: Sixteen subjects (median age, 37.5 …

Small-bowel transit scintigraphy (SBTS) evaluates the accumulation of a radiolabeled meal
in the terminal ileal reservoir (TIR) 6 h after ingestion. The location of the TIR may be difficult …